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At a Complimentary Dinner, tendered 
by the Washington Correspondents to 
Mr. Henry M. Stanley, at Willard's 
Hotel, Washington, January 11th, 1873, 
Mr. Shortfellow arose and remarked as 
follows : 



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I. 

Though Speke and Grant, and Burton, 

And geographic savants, 

Of the European nations, 

Held opinions geographic 

In regard to Ethiopia; 

It remained for Yankee Doodle 

To launch the ship of science 

Into rivers unexplored, — 

To sustain our reputation 

For wonderful achievements, 

By surveying fields unheard of, 

To find Livingstone the Cynic, 

And give the world of learning 

The truths he held concealed. 



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II. 

The enterprise of Yankees 
Was quite distinctly evidenced 
Among the correspondents, 
Whose toils for daily journals, 
Have kept the world advised 
Of incidents occurring. 
It fell the lot of newsmen 
To yield a shining pliead 
From out their constellation, 
To undertake the mission 
Of reaching the explorer, 
Livingstone, the great explorer, 
To determine by his travels 
The sources of the Nile. 



III. 

And Stanley was selected, 

Stanley of the Herald, 

Commissionaire to Abyssinia, 

To Grondar and to Kobbo. 

He went to Zanzibar, Buboopoo, 

To Kakoni and Kwaly, 

On a voyage to Ujiji. 

A hundred days at Bagamoyo, 

Catching snappers at Kingani, 

Drinking wine at Bagamoyo, 

With a priest named Charley Hertzog, 

(A Frenchman by persuasion, 

And a hunkey-dora fellow,) 

Caused delay enough for starting. 



IV. 

All prepared for active service 

In the glorious expedition, 

With instructions from Sheikh Hassid, 

(A man of sense and shekels,) 

His equipment was selected 

For a trip to Tanganika. 

He had l>lue and yellow beads, 

Had muslin Merikana, 

Had trinkets for the chieftains, 

And trinkets for princesses 

Doti, dowa, ghulabio, 

Hafde, bubu, kadunguru, 

Fundo, honga, ismahili, 

Shash and Sungomazzi, 

For the limber legged heathen, 

For the diwan, manyapara, 

Or a present to the king. 



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V. 

Captain Bombay, Farquahar, Esau, 

Shaw, and many " lialf-caste moslems ," 

With a number of Askari, 

Formed the Herald expedition 

Which saluted Magnus Diwan, 

The great Xmauin of Muscat, 

And saluted Charley Hertzog 

At his home in Bagamoyo, 

On their way to Unyanyembe. 

The scenery round Ugogo, 

And the beauteous Ukweie, 

And the forests of Udore, 

And the forests of Ukami, 

The wilds of Usagora 

And Ugogo to Kanyenye, 

Are beyond our comprehension, 

Unless we follow closely 

The details brought by Stanley 

And sold us by subscription 

In a larsre octavo volume. 



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VI 

The trees of Afric's forest 

Are the grandest sights of nature. 

The Syenite and granite 

Ivory, Copal, orchilla, 

Alligators, flies and insects, 

Snakes and prickly briars, 

Fell elephantiasis, 

Bloodthirsty, lazy Arabs, 

Treacherous Taborans 

And disorders all climatic 

Encourage emigration. 

And valuable information 

In his eloquent description 

Is furnished rather freely 

For the Bureau of Statistics. 



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VII. 

At the town of Unyanyeinbe, 
Men and women gathered, 
Men in nightgowns, knives and turbans, 
Children, sucking dusky nipples, 
Led by Diwan Seyd-ben-Salim, 
Welcomed him to Unyanyembe ; 
Gave him news of the explorer, 
Gave him plenteous herbs of Assam, 
Curried chicken, rice and slapjacks, 
Chowder made of alligator, 
Monkey chops and kangaroo. 
Then came rows of humpbacked oxen,, 
Bringing paw-paw and pomegranate, 
And the magnates from Tabora, 
With their wierd congratulations, 
Chanting Afghanistan music. 



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VIII. 

A big Arab from Ujoweh, 
A chieftain named Mirambo, 
A chronic sort of growler, 
And a technical dissenter, 
Came to tell of his successes 
Over princes and princesses. 
He'd cased his belli and Arabs, 
And determined was to plunder, 
All caravans of Arabs 
Passing that way to Ujiji. 
The word of battle given, 
Stanley busted this sardine. 



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IX. 

Near the town of Simbamwenni, 
In the province of Udore, 
Far from Bliss' Cundurango, 
Near the home of Kisabeng-o, 
Kisabengo the Kidnapper, 
Stanley took the Mukurungu, 
Or Miasmatic fever. 



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X, 

How it parched his epidermis ! 

Crept along his spinal column, 

And cerebro- spinal axis 

To his lumbar plexus ! 

Racked his brain with convolutions, 

Through medulla oblongata, 

From Cerebrum to Cerebellum. 

And primal, second, tertian, quartian, 

Cerebro-spinai-meningitis, 

Had possession of his system. 

He took a tilt with fearful jim-jams, 

Horrible Phantasmagoria ; 

His body twitched from head to foot 

With violent exacerbation, 

And his troubled soul, in anguish driven, 

Underwent metempsychosis. 



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Then a fearful dysenteria 

(Like a long debate in Congress, 

And thinner than its substance,) 

Struck him underneath the gasti 

And demoralized his rectum : 

Inflamed his duodenum, 

And all the mucus lining 

From his ilium to his colon ; 

Caused an ulcerated colon, 

And a painful caput coli, 

And a much increased vermicular 

Filled his ductus alimentus, 

Till repeated applications 

Wore the buttons off his trowers. 



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XII. 

Beyond the hills where Speke and Burton, 

Viewed the gorgeous Tanganika, 

Stanley's African attendants 

Shouted " Wallah, bana yanga ! " 

See the lake of Tanganika, 

Smell the fish of Tanganika, 

See the city of Ujiji, 

And the Minyuame travelers 

Livingstone, Susi, Chumah, 

Waiting for the white man. 

On they marched with banners streaming, 

Entered fair Ujiji, — 

Met the magnates of the City, 

And the object of their searching, 

Who saluted, Stanley, saying, 

" Mr. Gobright, I presume." 

The mistake was soon corrected, 

And a trip round Tanganika, 

And a trip to Unyanyembe, 

Began the voyage of our hero 

In a well preserved condition, 

To London and his home. 



